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Vatican City is a non-hereditary, elected monarchy that is ruled by the Bishop of Rome — the Pope. The highest state functionaries are all clergymen of the Catholic Church . It is the sovereign territory of the Holy See ( Latin : Sancta Sedes ) and the location of the Apostolic Palace — the Pope's official residence — and the Roman Curia .
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The Apostolic Palace [a] is the official residence of the Pope, the head of the Catholic Church, located in Vatican City. It is also known as the Papal Palace, the Palace of the Vatican and the Vatican Palace. The Vatican itself refers to the building as the Palace of Sixtus V, in honor of Pope Sixtus V, who built most of the present form of ...
The Papal Basilica of Saint Peter in the Vatican City (Italian: Basilica Papale di San Pietro in Citta di Vaticano), or simply Saint Peter's Basilica (Latin: Basilica Sancti Petri; Italian: Basilica di San Pietro [baˈziːlika di sam ˈpjɛːtro]), is a church of the Italian High Renaissance located in Vatican City, an independent microstate enclaved within the city of Rome, Italy.
The Vatican City national football team (Italian: Selezione di calcio della Città del Vaticano) is the football team that represents Vatican City. They are one of only seven fully recognised sovereign states whose national team is not a FIFA member. The others are Monaco, Tuvalu, Kiribati, Federated States of Micronesia, Nauru and Palau. The ...
But since the unification of Italy in the mid-19th century, Vatican City is the only papal state that has survived. As of 1929, because of the Lateran Treaty , the Vatican is recognized as its own independent state, the smallest in the world in population and land size, [ 5 ] with a population of just over 800 people in July 2011. [ 6 ]
In order to adapt to globalization and the development of religion and the administration of the Vatican City, [19] there are some modern architecture were constructed during 20th century such as the government palace. During the 20th century, the Vatican City began to restore some decades of buildings under the sponsorship of the rich.